Heraldry

"A Lesson in Heraldry" (National Magazine, March 1900) made the rounds of four other magazines until National paid $5 for it.

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This allusive quality, distinguished in English Heraldry as “_canting_,” has commonly been misunderstood, and therefore incorrectly estimated, by modern writers, who have supposed it to be a fantastic conceit of the

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

Lions also fulfil important duties of high honour in English Heraldry as

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

Human figures, winged and vested, and designed to represent ANGELS, are occasionally introduced in English Heraldry, their office generally being to act as “Supporters” to armorial Shields.

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

His Shield of arms, _a red cross on a silver field_, first appears in English Heraldry in the fourteenth century: No.  1.

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

At the head of the earliest existing authorities in English Heraldry are

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

Technically this in English Heraldry is simply the representation of a pale.

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

Since the fifteenth century, in English Heraldry, a narrow bendlet or baton sinister, couped at its extremities, either plain or charged, has usually been the mark employed as difference by the illegitimate descendants of the Royal Family.

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

Knightifie your Husbands? for 'tis a Rule in Heraldry, that none can make a Knight but him that is one; 'Tis Sancha Pancha's Case in

The Roundheads: or, The Good Old Cause 1682

Tierced in pale (divided into three equal divisions by two vertical lines), a form seldom met with in English Heraldry.

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844